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Players
Series:	Doctor Who - BBC Past Doctor Adventures
Release Number:	21
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor Second Doctor
Companions:	Peri Brown
Enemy:	The Players (Countess Malika Treszka / Andrea Razetki, Count Ludwig Kroner / Ludwig Praetorius) Wallis Simpson King Edward VIII Joachim von Ribbentrop
Setting:	South Africa, 1899 France, 1915 England, 1936
Author:	Terrance Dicks
Publisher:	BBC Books
Publication:	April 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, 251 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-55573-4
Previous Story:	Deep Blue
Following Story:	Millennium Shock

Publisher's Summary

Promising his companion, Peri, high society elegance in fin-de-siecle London, the Doctor manages to hit the right time, but the wrong place...

The TARDIS has landed on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of a Boer War skirmish. And soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in the adventures of a struggling politician and war correspondent who they know is destined for greater things - a certain Winston Churchill. But mysterious forces seem to be interfering in his potentially great career...

Arriving in London, the Doctor and Peri enter high society but find themselves in a world of intrigue populated by notorious figures from Wallis Simpson to Joachim von Ribbentrop. And behind everything, the Doctor senses the hidden hand of the Players - mysterious beings who regard human history as no more than a chess board. Can the Doctor and Peri find the right moves to defeat them - before it's too late?

Characters

• Sixth Doctor
• Second Doctor
• Peri Brown
• Edward VIII
• King Adelebert

References

• Swamp Thing
• Cybermen
• Punishment Zone
• Metebelis III

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Pinkerton Private Investigation Agency first appeared in NA: Shakedown.
• Tom Dekker first appeared in NA: Blood Harvest.
• The Doctor says he met Dracula (BFA: Son of the Dragon)

Timeline

Story placement is given on rear cover of novel

• Players occurs after: DW: The Mark of the Rani
• Players occurs before: DW: The Two Doctors

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - Players
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Players